SIR,—Considering how small the quantity of writing is in The
Spectator which we now receive for our subscriptions, I suggest that you make it a future rule that when you write a leading article you should take the trouble to make yourself master of all easily available information that is vital ,o your article. To discuss Mr. Morrison and the Daily Mirror, placidly remarking "IF (my selection of emphasis, of course) the leading article from which he quoted is a fair sample of what the paper offers to its readers,' &c., is, quite bluntly. impudence.
The high-bred taste which makes you content to disparage the
Daily Mirror without reading it makes you probably unaware that it is both widely read and trusted among the working-classes. Looking, therefore, at the question from the point of view of its readers, it should be realised that the matter will have to be treated with far greater tact and political skill than have so far been shown. Other- wise it would be difficult to imagine any singe executive act which would do greater violence to the public's confidence than the paper's
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